Dive into the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine and discover how food can transform your daily life.
How each cooking method (steaming, braising, simmering, wok, grilling, fermentation, raw) transforms the energetic nature of food: the reference table of Chinese dietetics.
The founding concept of Shi Liao: the frontier between everyday food and food-medicine, the five categories (spices, mushrooms, tonic berries, seeds, marine produce), and the status of this prescription in France.
Chronic fatigue in Chinese medicine: Qi, Yang or Blood deficiency? Learn to tell the three fatigues apart and which foods rebuild each one.
The energetic reading of the cycle: the Sea of Blood filling and emptying, the four Yin-Yang phases, and the foods that accompany each one.
Why weight increases at menopause and after 50 in men. Hormonal decline (science) and Kidney Yang decline (TCM): understanding to act more effectively.
Distinguishing the healing crisis (the terrain purging) from genuine worsening and prescription error: the clinical triage of the unexpected reaction in Chinese medicine.
The common cold as an external invasion: telling Wind-Cold from Wind-Heat at the first shivers, and deploying the emergency kitchen arsenal (congee, decoctions, sweating).
A concrete 4-week plan to transform your metabolism according to your TCM profile. Sample menus, golden rules and week-by-week progression for Profiles A, B and C.
Qie Zhen, pulse palpation, the fourth examination of the Si Zhen: what the wrist says about the terrain, the eight fundamental pulses, and the mutual confirmation with the tongue.
Fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K) and water-soluble ones (B, C), major minerals (calcium, magnesium, potassium) and trace elements (iron, zinc, iodine, selenium): roles, sources, and the signs of deficiency.
Phlegm as a pathogen in its own right: produced by the Spleen, stored in the Lung, capable of misting the Heart. Origin, signs and the dietary strategy for dissolving it.
Often undiagnosed subclinical hypothyroidism slows the metabolism. How TCM reads it through Kidney Yang Deficiency and which foods and plants support the thyroid.
The withdrawal support protocol in Chinese medicine: phase 1 stabilise (remove the amplifiers), phase 2 treat the residual pattern, phase 3 consolidate the terrain that prevents relapse.
The ears are the opening of the Kidneys: telling apart deficiency tinnitus (low, continuous, chronic) from excess tinnitus (loud, sudden, recent), and the foods for each picture.
Berberine, cinnamon, ginger, milk thistle: the best-validated TCM plants for improving insulin sensitivity, draining Dampness and tonifying Yang. Dosages and protocols.
The cross-cutting TCM reading of addiction: the Heart-Kidney deficiency that stirs the Shen, the compulsion to fill the void, and why every substance deepens the terrain it soothes.
Bone fragility read through the TCM lens: Kidney Jing nourishing the marrow, 'bone foods' on a double reading (TCM + calcium/vitamin D), and the long-term strategy.
Which foods reduce inflammation according to TCM and modern science? A practical guide with tables of draining foods, thermal nature and documented anti-inflammatory properties.
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